Example sentences of "[adj] was all [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hung up on me , This was all to the good . |
| 2 | João had been out with Fernando for most of the previous night and looked pale and tired , but Maria Iñes said this was all to the good , because it made him look older and readier to take on the responsibility of a wife . |
| 3 | This meant all trains had to stop and , as Lydham Heath was our station , this was all to the good . |
| 4 | But this was all in the past ! |
| 5 | The West Midlands and Cleveland County came up with £300,000 and £250,000 respectively , and that was all for the rest of England — a paltry £885,000 compared with the £2,325,000 raised from just twelve London boroughs . |
| 6 | True , it was astonishingly heavy when one came to lift it , but — as the philosophical cook observed — that was all to the good , as one slice would be enough ! |
| 7 | Well , perhaps that was all to the good . |
| 8 | But that was all to the good . |
| 9 | It looked like somebody 's curtains cut up — which was what it probably was — and if it provided a talking-point — well , that was all to the good , was n't it ? |
| 10 | ‘ That was all in the past , Aunt Nessy , ’ Charles put in now . |
| 11 | However , although that was all in the past the memory of it lingers on whenever a match between the two countries is mentioned . |